Defect & Task Management in Visual Expert Desktop
Visual Expert Desktop offers the same defect management as the Web version: the same dashboard indicators, the same defect list, the same defect details. What differs is how you reach them, and where some results are displayed.
This page covers only those differences. For everything else, follow the other pages of this set.
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Reaching the dashboard
In Visual Expert Desktop, the dashboard opens in the Source Code View window:
- automatically, when you open the project;
- when you click the home icon in the Main view;
- when you click the project node, on the first line of the tree.
- when you click on Show Defects Occurences in the navigation menu.
The indicators are the same as in Visual Expert Web. See Defect Dashboard.
The defect list
Clicking on the Active Defects tab in the Defects Dashboard opens the same grid as in Web, with the same columns.
In the Code Review group of the ribbon, click Show Defect List (A). The Defects window opens on All Defects (B), with the same columns as in Visual Expert Web. To filter, type in the first row under the column headers, or select a value in a column's dropdown.
Defect details
In Visual Expert Desktop, click a defect ID to open the defect in a separate Defect Details window. The defect does not open beside the list as it does in Visual Expert Web.
The window shows the same areas as in Web: the source code with the offending lines highlighted, the Occurrences, the rule description in the Details and Benefits tabs, and the Recent Activity. See Defect Details.
Assign a defect
- Open the defect and click [Assign Defect].
- The Assign Defect window opens with the task name and description prefilled.
Check the details, adjust them if needed, then click [Create Task].
Code Review commands
The Code Review commands of Code Explorer – Manage Defects and Show Defects Occurrences – work as in Visual Expert Web, from the Code Review section of the navigation bar or from the right-click menu. See Finding defects from Code Explorer.
In Desktop, the defect list opens in the right-hand panel, in place of the source code view.
Tasks
Task management in Visual Expert Desktop requires Visual Expert Web. Defect management does not.
In the Code Review group of the ribbon, click Show Task List. The Tasks window opens on All Tasks, with the status, priority, due date and assignee of each task.
To filter the list, type in the first row under the column headers, or select a value in a column's dropdown.
Click a task ID to open the task in Visual Expert Web. The task details and the task management commands are available there only.
